Great stuff! Love the art and inspiration its work like yours that gets me itching to pick up a pencil or open up zbrush and start sketching around. Inspiration as you said really dose come from the things we see are minds do the rest in filling in the gaps Please keep up the great work!

I really like your artworks! Especially: Riven Earth, Desert Rocks, The Druid, Tyrant, Knight Errant. Could you tell more about some of these artworks.
What inspired you to create concepts for artworks Riven Earth, The Druid, Tyrant? They have very interesting natural forms.

How long time do you usually create the concept? I mean not only the process of drawing, but also work of your imagination.

What kind of tablet do you use? It seems to me that I can see the Cintiq on your photo. I use Intuos 4 and I would like to know how big is the difference between these instruments. Does the Cintiq accelerate artist's work?

Mazurkin -
Riven Earth, Desert Rocks, The Druid, Tyrant, Knight Errant were all concepts done for Guild Wars 2. Riven Earth and The Druid are actually GW1 subjects that we are bringing back in GW2. I slightly re-designed the original vision for the next project. I look at photos of nature to get inspiration for textural treatments. Overall shapes and forms are usually from my head.

It takes me anywhere from a day to a week to do one. Depending if the idea is good or not, or if I have to make more corrections.

The difference varies from artist to artist, but for me it was hard to get use to my hand being in front of my face. And really I still just as fast as I was with the intuos. Also the weird thing too is my posture was way better with the intuos. But mark making is a lot more natural with the cintig.

I've looked at a few of your tutorials online ,do you always start in grayscale for the beginning,without having a sketch of the idea beforehand? Also which is a good method for learning in 2d, like painting photographs and images before making entire pieces from imagination?

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